Inside the Orlando Pride's journey to NWSL greatness with Haley Carter
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The unbeaten Orlando Pride has just lifted the 2024 NWSL Shield. But their history, on the pitch, in this league is one filled with many more downs than ups.
This week on Full Time, Meg Linehan and Steph Yang trace the Pride's journey from an awkward expansion club, to now sitting at the top of the standings at the end of an unprecedented 2024 season.
To help answer the question of how Orlando achieved this transformation, general manager Haley Carter joined the show to take us inside the Pride's emergence since her arrival in January 2023.
What kind of soccer club did Carter see when she walked in the door? How have the players changed and adapted to her and head coach Seb Hines' management style?
Plus, Steph reports back from her one-on-one with Commissioner Jessica Berman and the additional information she learned about the Angel City points deductions. What does it mean for the rest of the league, and the NWSL's image regarding rule-breaking?
There's also time to preview the upcoming NWSL weekend, the Portland Thorns' plans to make a change at GM, and whether Temwa Chawinga will hit goal number 19!
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HOST: Meg Linehan
GUEST: Steph Yang, Haley Carter
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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Angel City salary-cap violation was revealed by former player, says NWSL commissioner
Portland Thorns’ Karina LeBlanc leaving GM role at end of season
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, happy Thursday, welcome back to this whole time with Meglin. I'm Meg. I'm back with you, Tamara Griffin is enjoying some vacation time. God bless. I hope |
| 0:22.8 | she's enjoying it. Today I am joined by the athletics own Steph Young. Steph, how are you? Are you watching Agatha all along yet? |
| 0:30.1 | You know that I'm saving it up to binge while my wife is out of town. I'm going to order like an extra spicy pizza and then I'm going to sit down in the |
| 0:38.9 | basement and have meat time. Yeah. I mean, that's fair. I just, the show is eating my brain |
| 0:46.4 | alive. Usually, Tamara and I talk about maple things. We could talk about fall and maple, but like, |
| 0:51.4 | currently it's just Agatha all along. If you remember, the two of us |
| 0:54.6 | on the first version of the show would always talk about Wanda vision too. So I feel like we're |
| 0:58.3 | just, we're bringing it back full circle with a Marvel show that just surprised us all. |
| 1:04.5 | Which fall? I don't know. I mean, look, that aesthetic has already leaked into me, saw the Orlando Pride's, like, |
| 1:12.9 | big purple poster. |
| 1:14.5 | It was like Orlando all along. |
| 1:16.5 | Orlando all along. |
| 1:17.5 | I mean, that's a perfect, we're going to be digging into Orlando. |
| 1:20.6 | But first, I mean, you may have noticed in your feeds that we had a whole extra episode of |
| 1:25.2 | full time waiting for you on Monday. |
| 1:27.3 | That's full-time review. |
| 1:28.2 | We're going to try to review all the weekend action in 15 minutes or less. I was your host this week. We're going to be passing it along. So you're going to get a whole bunch of different voices every Monday. I'll be with you, though, in some form or another every Monday. But of course, we're still going to be with you here every Thursday to do all the stuff |
| 1:46.5 | that we normally do, whether that's the burning topics of the week. |
| 1:49.7 | We've certainly got one to start us off this week. |
| 1:52.3 | Analysis, discussion, and catching up with some of the best minds in the game, like stuff, |
| 1:56.8 | obviously. |
| 1:58.3 | But let's get into Orlando, because Orlando Pride have clinched the historic NWSL Shield, their first NWSL trophy on Sunday night. |
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